Following the announcement by beehaw admins to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, there has been many posts and messages regarding that decisions and what other instances will do.
I personally believe Lemmy/kbin can only thrive if there is a free flow of content between different instances, with instance admins taking a back seat and focusing more on the infrastructure and making sure the technical bugs are smoothened out. Community mods can moderate their communities, and users can block the communities they don’t find appealing (there’s even a toggle in settings to hide every NSFW post from your feed altogether).
We don’t want to create walled gardens, nor do we want to make Lemmy more confusing than it already is for new users. We will not be defederating from any instance if there is even one good community on it that our instance users might find useful. So far we have only blocked lemmygrad.ml, and right now we have no plans to block anyone else.
You are right it does have its funny moments. Was checking out kbin.social to see what it was like and it’s funny how lemmy.ml which used to be a safe place for pro Putin and pro Kim Un people is now being abused because the instance didn’t make their beliefs explicitly known and accepted too many mainstream individuals. lemmy.ml isn’t the safe place it used to be when they venture out of lemmygrad.ml with this take over.
https://kbin.social/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/66327/Ukraine-is-winning-and-it-is-changing#comments
It’ll be interesting to see what happens to lemmy.ml, since the instance being overrun with people putting down instead of supporting their idea of the communist cause can’t be making them happy. Will they give up and let people say what they want and consider the instance a lost cause with the influx of users, or do mass bans.